Pen and pencil case



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

EDW'ARD BAPTIS, OF I-IOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

PEN AND PENCIL CASE..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,760, dated April 29,1856.

Taall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD BAPTIS, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudsonand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Pen and PencilCase; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is alongitudinal section of myimprovement, the plane ot' section beingthrough the center. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the spiral grooved orslotted tubes by which the pen and pencil are operated or shoved in andout of the case.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twoiigures.

My invention consist-s in the peculiar means employed for operating orshoving the pen and pencil in and out of the case. This is effected bytwo spiral grooved or slotted tubes,

.each inclosed within a tube and fitted one Within the other, as will bepresently shown and described, so that the pen and pencil will beoperated or shoved alternately in and out of the case by turning thespiral grooved or slotted tubes.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.v

The case is formed of two parts A B. The part A is rathersmaller indiameter than the part B, so that the part B may slide over it, therebyforming an extension-case. The part A has a tube o. fitted within it,said tube being permanently secured within the part A, and having a bandb fitted around it, to which band the pen-holder C is attached, t-heband b being allowed to slide upon the tube a. Within the tube a thereis placed a spiral grooved or slotted tube c, and the bandb has aprojection d attached to it, which projection passes through alongitudinal slot e in the tube a, and fits in the spiral groove in thetube c. Vithin the spirally-groovedtube c there is fitted a tube f, inwhich a spirallygrooved tube g is fitted. Within the tube g apencil-slide K is iitted, said slide having a projection h attached toit, which projection fits in the spiral groove of the tube g. (See Figs.1 and 2.) The two tubes a. f are permanently secured within the part Aof the case; but the spirally-grooved tubes c g are allowed to turnwithin their respective tubes ct f, the tubes c g being connected attheir inner ends to a head h', which is iitted within the partB of thecase, said head having pins or projections t' at its edge, one or more,which fit in grooves j in the inner side of the part B of the case. Thespiral grooves of the two tubes c g are cut in reverse directions, onebeing a right and the other a left spiral, as shown clearly in Fig. 2,and the projections d on the band b is at one end of thespirally-grooved tube c when the projection h on the pencilslide K is atthe opposite end of the spirallygrooved tube g. (See Fig. l.)

By the above description it will be seen thatI by turning the part B ofthe case first to the right and then to the left the two spiralgroovedtubes c g Will be turned simultaneously, and the pen-holder C andpencil-slide K will be shoved alternately in and out of the part A ofthe case, the pen-holder and pencil-slide moving simultaneously inopposite directions.

I am aware that penholders and pencilslides have been operatedseparately by spirally-grooved tubes, and I'therefore do not claim asingle spiral groove tube; but

I claim- The two spirally-grooved tubes c g when ar- EDWARD BAPTIS.

Vit-nesses:

WM. TUscH, JAMES F. BUCKLEY.

